Song
Tristezas de la calle Corrientes · Domingo Federico · 1952
Domingo FedericoCarlos Valdez, Julia de AlbatangoRCA VictorWho recorded it
Every version3Earliest we hold: Miguel Caló, 1942
Recorded on Sep 11, 1952, during the Golden Age (1935–1954).
19351954
Domingo Federico · no periods written yet
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
3 orchestras recorded it
58 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Domingo Federico
- Words
- Homero Expósito
- Written
- not yet cited · help fill it
- First played
- not yet cited · help fill it
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
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Calle como valle de monedas para el pan... Río sin desvío donde sufre la ciudad... ¡Qué triste palidez tienen tus luces! ¡Tus letreros sueñan cruces! ¡Tus afiches carcajadas de cartón! Risa que precisa la confianza del alcohol. Llantos hechos cantos pa' vendernos un amor. Mercado de las tristes alegrías... ¡Cambalache de caricias donde cuelgan la ilusión! Triste. ¡Si por ser nuestra! Triste. ¡Si, porque sueñas! Tu alegría es tristeza y el dolor de la espera te atraviesa... ¡Y con pálida luz vivís llorando tus tristezas! Triste. ¡Si, por ser nuestra! Triste. ¡Si, por tu cruz! Vagos con halagos de bohemia mundanal. Pobres, sin más cobres que el anhelo de triunfar, ablandan el camino de la espera con la sangre toda llena de cortados, en la mesa de algún bar. Calle como valle de monedas para el pan... Río sin desvío donde sufre la ciudad... Los hombres te vendieron como a Cristo y el puñal del obelisco te desangra sin cesar.
English · machine translation
Street as a valley of coins for bread... River without detour where the city suffers... What a sad pallor your lights have! Your signs dream of crosses! Your posters cardboard laughter! Laughter that needs the confidence of alcohol. Cries made songs to sell us a love. Market of sad joys... A caresses' caches where they hang the illusion! Sad. Yes for being ours! Sad. Yes, because you dream! Your joy is sadness and the pain of waiting pierces you... And with pale light you live weeping for your sadness! Sad. Yes, for being ours! Sad. Yes, for your cross! Vague with flattery of worldly bohemia. Poor, with no other cash than the yearning to succeed, they soften the path of waiting with their blood all full on the table of some bar. Street like a valley of coins for bread... River without detour where the city suffers... Men sold you like Christ and the dagger of the obelisk bleeds you without ceasing.
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 6 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
The leader is Miguel Caló, 1942, with 88% of the 58 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.
3 more dances name this song but not which version, so no share counts them. “No match yet” means no filmed dance is tied to that version so far, not that nobody dances it. Dances whose music we have not identified are left out.
Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.
- Miguel CalóEarliest we holdMost dancedTristezas de la calle CorrientesMiguel CalóRaúl BeróntangoOdeon51 dances · 88%1942
- Domingo FedericoTristezas de la calle CorrientesDomingo FedericoCarlos Valdez, Julia de AlbatangoRCA Victor4 dances · 7%1952
- Aníbal TroiloTristezas de la calle CorrientesAníbal TroiloFrancisco FiorentinotangoRCA Victor3 dances · 5%1942
- Orquesta Típica PorteñaNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche · Jul 21976
- Libertad LamarqueNot in our catalogue
- Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
- Mario MauranoNot in our catalogueLibertad Lamarque
- Armando CupoNot in our catalogueMiguel Montero
- Raúl Miguel GarelloNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Domingo Federico
Tristezas de la calle CorrientesDomingo FedericoCarlos Valdez, Julia de AlbatangoRCA VictorNo couple filmed dancing this recording yet
Recorded the same day
What else Domingo Federico recorded on Sep 11, 1952.
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- EntryTristezas de la calle Corrientes · Miguel Caló · 1942Recording
- EntryTristeza criolla · Juan D'Arienzo · 1954Recording
- EntryTristeza · Julio De Caro · 1935Recording
- EntryTristeza de amor · Típica Victor · 1931Recording
- EntryTristeza criolla · Francisco Canaro · 1945Recording
- EntryEstampa de matón · Domingo Federico · 1951Recording
- EntryPercal · Domingo Federico · 1952Recording
- EntryRonda sentimental · Domingo Federico · 1952Recording
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Audio feature 123.0
Audio feature 0.934
Audio feature F
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Audio feature -23.3
Audio feature 0.453
Audio feature 0.23
Audio feature 0.467
Audio feature 0.039
Audio feature 0.0
Audio feature 0.494
Audio feature 123.8
Audio feature 61.9
Audio feature step
Vocal1
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